Professor Emeritus Amy Lawrence will appear with her sister and co-filmmaker Terry Lawrence at CineSalon's Monday October 5th online screening to present and discuss their recent animated film "Ode to Akhnaten", as well as their new animated film, which they are currently shooting.

Professor Iyabo Kwayana will be speaking on October 1st at the Black Women Film Conference. The live conversation "Filming the Self" will feature Professor Kwayana, Gessica Geneus and Angelique Webster, and will begin at 6:30 EST on Facebook and Youtube Live.

Professor Iyabo Kwayana joined four fellow "cultural workers creating and sustaining life against the backdrop of disaster capitalism in Puerto Rico, Detroit, and the American South" for the panel "Cultural Work In the Wake" on August 23rd.

Professor Iyabo Kwayana has been awarded a NEF Early Development Grant for the film "Love in the Time of Corona", which she is co-producing and directing. LEF Program Officer Genevieve Carmel shared, "We couldn't be more excited to explore an expansion of LEF's Moving Image Fund in this way..."

Professor Mary Flanagan joined José Luis de Vicente for "New Perspectives on Digital Leisure", about how confinement has accelerated the cultural dynamics of the hyperconnected society. The discussion was presented by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona on June 10th.

Professors Iyabo Kwayana (Film and Media Studies) and James Whitfield (Physics) were awarded a SPARK Provost grant towards beginning production of their film about COVID-19, quantum entanglement, and the myth of separation.

Film & Media Studies Department Chair Paul Young will read from his auto-biographic 2016 book Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism and discuss the controversy “If Marvel movies aren’t cinema, what are they?” Monday the 20th at 7PM as part of Cine Salons online program....

"The experimental filmmaker Jodie Mack is secretly one of the best directors of musicals working today": Professor Mack's short film Curses was featured in the New York Times in a new series

Professor Flanagan’s new [GraceAI], an artificial intelligence, is having its American premiere in the exhibition “A Question of Intelligence: AI and the Future of Humanity” at Parsons’ Sheila C. Johnson Design Center in New York....

Professor Jodie Mack's newest feature film The Grand Bizarre has screened around the world this year, most recently in Berlin Germany and at a collaborative evening with Polish musicians Sundial at Festival Animation in Poznan, Poland.